Propaganda created by Russian agents on the game Pokémon Go. Source: CNN

Evidence is mounting that agents of the Russian government bought advertisements on social media platforms with the intention of pushing the U.S. presidential election toward Donald Trump and away from Hillary Clinton. Facebook has agreed to turn over more than 3,000 Russian-linked advertisements to Congress. The ads were to be turned in Monday, according to the New York Times.https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/01/technology/facebook-russia-ads.html

From The Verge:​“A Tumblr page linked to Russia’s now-notorious Internet Research Agency promoted a contest encouraging people sympathetic to the Black Lives Matter movement to play the game near famous sites of police brutality. Players were told to change their characters’ names to the victims of those incidents — an apparent effort to inflame racial tensions.

Twitter had an integral role in dividing and confusing American voters during the campaign, and it is still refusing to filter out bots, which are accounts created by an algorithm, not a real person. The platform acted as a conduit for extremist political memes (photos and artwork designed to elicit a strong emotional response) on both sides of many divisive issues. The aim appears to have been to create a chaotic, contentious, combative climate in our social interactions.http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/04/what-twitter-going-do-about-disinformation-campaigns/